Important Things 1999

The first university of Chinese, Peiyang University is hidden by his “modern” name  “Tianjin University”, also with his glorious history.

There’re some introductions of Peiyang University on Internet:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peiyang_university

http://baike.baidu.com/view/63906.htm

http://zh.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%E5%8C%97%E6%B4%8B%E5%A4%A7%E5%AD%A6&variant=zh-hans

* 1895 Peiyang University founded
* 1899 The first Diploma in China granted
* 1907 Developed into a comprehensive university integrating Engineering with Liberal Arts, Law and Education.
* 1935 The first group of graduate students enrolled
* 1937 The first Master’s Degree conferred
* 1951 Merged with Hebei Technical College, renamed as Tianjin University
* 1958 The first Library (floor area of 14423m²) established
* 1959 Became one of the first 16 National Key Universities
* 1981 The first group of PhD students enrolled
* 1984 The Graduate School founded
* 1985 The first Doctor’s Degree conferred
* 1995 100th Anniversary
* 1999 National University Science Park built to facilitate knowledge transfer
* 2000 Priority support Obtained from the Ministry of Education of China and Municipal Government of Tianjin for further development

Today, someone said his boy is learning writing in a teacher’s home, and the boy is about 9 years old, junior school. The writing class tuition is RMB100/Hour, and every week his child spends 2 hours to learn writing.  It’s surprised me that the teacher cann’t teach more students, because every Saturday and Sunday, his schedule is full.

Then another surprise thing was told that the tuition of high school out of class was RMB200/Hour, if you want review all the class today, you would spend over RMB1000/day. Of course, the class is not our normal class, the object of the class is for college test. it’s so special that lot of people queue for it.

It’s amazing, isn’t it?